Graven Images: Graphic Motifs of the Jewish Gravestone
Registered by SqueakyChu of Rockville, Maryland USA on 6/14/2018
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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This is such an interesting book! I never gave much thought to Jewish gravestones or what was on them other than the Hebrew names of the deceased plus the birth and death dates.
This book is about the Jewish prohibition on graven images (the second commandment) and how gravestone craftsmen somehow didn't quite follow that commandment. The book goes on to describe and show in color photographs of these "graven images" from gravestones, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, in several European countries. Each symbol is explained with a biblical quote and then followed by a more detailed and specific explanation.
The most disturbing picture of the book was of a wall built by non-Jewish students from 15th- and 16th-century gravestones desecrated during World War II. It just served to remind me that gravestone desecration in Jewish cemeteries is not simply a happening of the distant past.
This book is about the Jewish prohibition on graven images (the second commandment) and how gravestone craftsmen somehow didn't quite follow that commandment. The book goes on to describe and show in color photographs of these "graven images" from gravestones, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, in several European countries. Each symbol is explained with a biblical quote and then followed by a more detailed and specific explanation.
The most disturbing picture of the book was of a wall built by non-Jewish students from 15th- and 16th-century gravestones desecrated during World War II. It just served to remind me that gravestone desecration in Jewish cemeteries is not simply a happening of the distant past.
Journal Entry 3 by SqueakyChu at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA on Friday, September 18, 2020
Released 3 yrs ago (9/18/2020 UTC) at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA
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*** The 2020 You're Such an Animal Release Challenge hosted by Secretariat. The book's title includes the word RAVEN.
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*** The 2020 You're Such an Animal Release Challenge hosted by Secretariat. The book's title includes the word RAVEN.
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I pulled this book from the shelf of the Little Free LIbrary of Twinbrook (#7720) because I received a request for it.
I'm releasing this book by request to BookCrosser SqnutZips.
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Thank You Squeaky for saving this book for me. I have always had an interest in graveyards and especially in gravestones.
Planning to release this book sometime this week to one of the LFL's at Brookside Gardens.
Journal Entry 8 by SqNutZips at Little Free Library - Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland USA on Thursday, October 29, 2020
Released 3 yrs ago (10/30/2020 UTC) at Little Free Library - Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland USA
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